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《理论语言学五道口站》（2021年第2期，总第136期）理论与方法专栏为大家推荐意大利锡耶纳大学语言学教授、北京语言大学语言学系国际教授委员会成员Adriana Belletti、美国纽约大学语言学教授Chris Collins主编的著作：Smuggling in Syntax（《句法中的潜运》）。该书于2021年在Oxford University Press出版。

著作简介

Smuggling in Syntax

《句法中的潜运》

简介：

“移位”是人类语言的基本特性之一，即句法成分从一个位置移动到另一个位置。句法理论研究长期以“移位”的性质为重要议题，这其中便包括局域性限制。

《句法中的潜运》研究了不同类型的移位操作之间的相互作用，重点研究了“潜运”的特殊情况。“潜运”一词由克里斯·柯林斯于2005年首次提出，其意为一种特殊的移位互动。书中章节描述了潜运派生词在不同语言结构和现象中发挥的作用，包括被动语态、致使、副词位置、与格交替、量词位置、wh-原位和作格语言中的语序。本书还研究了“移位”中的“冻结限制”以及儿童潜运派生词的习得等问题。

本书收录了多位著名句法学家在“潜运”方面的研究成果，用实证结果解决了基本的理论问题，在探讨了最难理解的移位类型的同时也为新的研究指明了方向。

Abstract:

One of the fundamental properties of human language is movement, where a constituent moves from one position in a sentence to another position. Syntactic theory has long been concerned with properties of movement, including locality restrictions.

Smuggling in Syntax investigates how different movement operations interact with one another, focusing on the special case of smuggling. First introduced by volume editor Chris Collins in 2005, the term 'smuggling' refers to a specific type of movement interaction. The contributions in this volume each describe different areas where smuggling derivations play a role, including passives, causatives, adverb placement, the dative alternation, the placement of measure phrases, wh-in-situ, and word order in ergative languages. The volume also addresses issues like the freezing constraint on movement and the acquisition of smuggling derivations by children.

In this work, Adriana Belletti and Chris Collins bring together leading syntacticians to present a range of contributions on different aspects of smuggling. Tackling fundamental theoretical questions with empirical consequences, this volume explores one of the least understood types of movement and points the way toward new research.

-Adriana Belletti-

（阿德里亚娜·贝莱蒂）

阿德里亚娜·贝莱蒂（Adriana Belletti），锡耶纳大学语言学教授。其研究领域主要为生成比较形态句法，以意大利语/罗曼语为重点研究对象，基于语法来探究不同的语言习得模式。出版了《意大利语的习得》(2015年)和《结构与超越》(2004年)。

Adriana Belletti is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Siena. Her main research has focused on generative comparative morpho-syntax with special emphasis on Italian/Romance and on different modes of language acquisition within a grammar-based approach. Her publications include the co-authored volume The Acquisition of Italian (2015) and with OUP the edited volume Structures and Beyond (2004). 

-Chris Collins-

（克里斯·柯林斯）

克里斯·柯林斯（Chris Collins），纽约大学语言学教授，语法学家。他对包括鄂温克语和科斯语等语言在内的非洲语言有着浓厚的研究兴趣。其研究领域主要为回指、论元结构、否定以及省略。他参与撰写并编辑了多本书籍，如2019年在牛津大学出版社出版的《科伊桑语中的形态连接项》。

Chris Collins is Professor of Linguistics at New York University. He is a syntactician with an interest in African languages, including Ewe and the Khosian languages. His research focuses on anaphora, argument structure, negation, and ellipsis. He has written and edited multiple books, including most recently The Linker in the Khoisan Languages (OUP 2019).

相关评论

《句法中的潜运》一书收录了该领域的一系列优秀论文，充分证明了“潜运”作为句子推导的组成部分所具有的影响。这些论文通过对一系列语言事实加以论证，做到了事实与理论的有机结合。我相信，这本书将成为读者的灵感源泉。

——莉莲·海格曼

比利时根特大学

Smuggling in Syntax brings together an impressive array of diverse and enriching papers by authorities in the field who all demonstrate convincingly the impact of smuggling as a component of sentence derivation. With a range of languages represented, the papers collected here combine empirical wealth with theoretical depth. I am convinced that this volume will become a stimulating source of inspiration for many.

-Liliane Haegeman

University of Ghent, Belgium

这部作品收集了大量经典的案例研究，记录了‘潜运’的普遍作用。‘潜运’在许多句法结构的研究中都起着至关重要的作用:无论是最初的被动结构还是其后的致使、tough-移位、与格转换以及不合理结构等等。对‘潜运’的探索标志着我们在理解句法派生方面跨出了巨大的一步。

——古格里莫·辛克

威尼斯卡佛斯卡里大学

The volume is an impressive collection of case studies documenting the pervasive role of 'smuggling.' From its original application to passive, smuggling is convincingly shown here to play a crucial role in such diverse domains as causatives, tough-movement, dative alternations, the can't seem construction and still others. A striking step forward in our comprehension of syntactic derivations.

- Guglielmo Cinque

Ca' Foscari University, Venice

“潜运”在句法理论中越来越重要，并且引起了令人兴奋的研究热潮。该书汇集了该领域目前最好的研究成果。

——威廉·斯奈德

美国康涅狄格大学

An idea of growing importance to syntactic theory, smuggling has yielded an explosion of exciting research. Collected here is some of the best.

- William Snyder

 University of Connecticut, America

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